hi
ive been to look at a saff cossy 88 spec 2wd today, lovely motor goes like stink 300bhp ish iam so tempted but the only problem that i can see with it is the abs light flickers and then says on pads are brand new so its not them. could it be something really simpal or will it cost a bomb to get sorted out/ can it be removed

cheers
mark

 

a faulty sensor loose wire ? u can take the bulb out but then the parts rnt that dear
paul at nothyorkishe would have most the bits to fix

 

Very common problem, take the bulb out

 

if it stays on when stationary its wiring,control unit or relay,
or if it comes on when moving its the sensor or pick up ring,
really needs fixing as its an mot failure

 

i may be rong, but when a car is lowered more than a certain amount it plays tricks on the abs!!! is was on in my cossie. and i cud look the wheels, just dont brake as hard on the wet

 

probably just a sensor
not worth giving up on a car if it's only going to cost a few quid to put right

plug a tester into the abs plug and see what the fualt code comes up with
more thatn likely to be a front sensor though, most of the ones i've seen tend to have either come loose and the tyre has chaffed them or have started to crack at the point where they come out of the hub
white furring will point you in at least some sort of direction as they tend to go open curcit
there is a resistance/voltage test you can do across the pins to see for sure, but i'm not sure what the values are

 

you need a multimeter (volt-ampere-ohmmeter)

put your tester probes on abs sensor plug and check the Ohms on it. it should show same amount of ohms in every wheel. i dont recall how many ohms it should show but it basicly dont matter, cause its very rare that more than one sensor is broken at same time. (probably its about 1.6k ohms and changes between 1.3-1.9 ohms, or something like that. but as i sayed, you dont need those values.)

then check that when you rotate the wheel, ohms will chance according how fast you rotate wheel.

if all sensors are functional, then check wiring loom to the module. take module connector out, and check from there same test that you did whit sensors. there should be same ohms than sensors.